Boskak

At Christmasy times like these some of us still like to give each other nice cards with nice sentimental bearish messages, instead of just flicking through an e-card.

Actually, e-cards are so 2001, don’t even think about that shit.

But back to the point. You visit Foodtown or Paperplus looking for a nice card for your buddy/mummy/baby/FB, and what do you see but a bunch of sleazy corporate greeting cards with a soppy ‘poem’ by some pseudo-writer - for like five freaking dollars!!

The thing about greeting cards, see, is that they’re cheap as hell to make. They’re also a gift item, so people often don’t feel comfortable searching for cheap ones. And they’re a non-regular small purchase, so you tend just to grab them where you can rather than putting much thought into where you get them from.

Hence, the greeting card business is ideal for bastard corporations who’ll charge you $5 for a card it cost 7 cents to make.

But! Nice charities can also sell you cards at amazing prices, and because cards are cheap to make, they can still have money left over for the kids/homeless/cancerous/etc.

This year I bought my Christmas cards from Youthline - $10 for ten cards, i.e. cheap as heck, AND I’m helping save little emo teenagers, AND it’s technically a charitable donation and therefore tax-deductible, so I get a third of the price back at the end of the year. BARGAIN.

I therefore declare that anyone who gives me a corporate greeting card this year will receive it back SPLATTERED WITH THE BLOOD OF A DEAD CHILD as a reminder of the price of his thoughtless actions.

Merry Christmas
Matt

I thought that since I’ve been knee-deep in the scene for the last few months I’d dig a little on the current political state for Boskak readers who are still hanging around. I’m speak not as an expert but from my own observations over a relatively short period of time. At best this should be a good read for people who have been politically apathetic until now.

So the big news from last night is that Jacob Zuma is now the president of the ruling party. Thabo Mbeki will be our lame duck president of the state for the next year or so until the elections of 2009, in which we will most likely see Zuma voted in as the president of the republic. Not only was Zuma voted in, his entire camp was ushered in, giving the ANC’s NEC (National Executive Committee) a complete makeover. It’s up to anyone out there to draw their own conclusions from this. My thinking is that it symbolises the strength of the pro-Zuma rally as well as the strength of the anti-Mbeki sentiment.

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First it started with the firing of Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and then came the fiasco reported by the Sunday Times regarding Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s antics while in hospital. For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past two weeks the story goes as follows:

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It’s amazing how much we take for granted in this country. And noteably on this site. Don’t get me wrong, political incorrectness has it’s place but what I say now I don’t say for the sake of political correctness but because it is simply fact, South Africa is awesome. For many reasons. I love the diversity, the people, the scenery, the weather, the constitution. We are possibly the luckiest nation on this continent.

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While delivering the Youth Day Memorial Lecture at Wits University, ANC Youth League president Fikile Mbalula told the audience that the University of Kwazulu Natal had turned into “nothing but Bombay”. He stated that one gets the impression that UKZN was a university exclusively for Indians.

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This is a topic that has received much discussion lately. This is mainly due to the seemingly indiscriminate way in which street names were chosen for name changes. It seemed as though any street that represented something of a “white” past was on the chopping block.

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This morning I heard a report on the radio that made me laugh. Safety and Security minister Charles Nqakula seems to be on damage control this week; he’s in the UK to try and convince foregn investors and expatriates that crime is not out of control.

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Ok, it’s been a while since my last post, that didn’t involve me merely posting an email I received J. So here’s the situation, this past week, the government in Zimbabwe really fucked up. They violently squashed a demonstration staged by the opposition party, which resulted in one member being shot dead and MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) leader Morgan Tsvangirai being hospitalized for a cracked skull.

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Driving to work in semi light traffic at 6:30 in the morning, the last thing you want to get worked up about are news paper headlines splashed all over the place. Now usually I stay quite calm and just let the headline slip, mainly because the headlines themselves are misleading and full of shit. But today one of them caught my eye, and so I decided to go and do some research on the eye catching “City ready to change names” by the Cape Times.

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Last week Mbeki stated on Television that “it was only a perception that crime was spiraling out of control.” Now before I continue any further with this article, lets just looking at something.

What is crime? According to the oxford dictionary Crime is an offence against an individual or the state which is punishable by law. So basically it is something going against the law of a country, and thus going against the government of that country.

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